Ravensburger

01869 363 830 | www.ravensburger.com

Named as Europe’s Top Gaining Arts & Crafts Toy Property at the 2023 NPD Toy Awards in Nuremberg earlier this year, the CreArt painting by numbers range from Ravensburger will welcome additions across both children's and adult ranges in the second half of 2023.

Following the recent launch of a trio of sets by artist Pixie Cold, the company further expands on its featureartist adult CreArt portfolio with three new products showcasing the contemporary imagery of French digital illustrator, Jolane. The fresh and striking designs offer new and seasoned painting by numbers fans a unique artistic escape. These will complement the wider adult portfolio, which brings together designs appealing to all tastes, from scenic escapes to colourful pop art styles and minimalist landscapes.

Younger artists, from the age of seven, will enjoy new introductions such as Sonic the Hedgehog, which joins other popular licences in the collection, including Harry Potter and Pokémon. Like other children's CreArt products, the preprinted canvas features coloured guidelines to help build confidence and ensure a professional finish, and a useful frame is included to showcase finished artwork. Other new additions for budding artists include a Winter Fawn. All CreArt sets include a high-quality canvas, acrylic paints and a fine-point paintbrush, plus additional content such as a painting guide and a handy palette to hold paint pots. Ravensburger will continue strengthening this growing brand with an ongoing marketing

Make It Real

01613 024 100 www.makeitrealplay.com

A trailblazer in the tween activity and accessories space, Make It Real’s continuous growth has been fuelled through strong relationships with its business partners and a maintained commitment to innovation, quality and beautifully designed packaging.

Simba Smoby Toys

01620 674 778 | www.smobytoys.co.uk sales@simbasmoby.com

Budding florists and crafty kids can use the Smoby Flower Market to design and construct their very own flowers using the manual press. Included is a wide selection of colourful fabric flower petals as well as stems and other flower parts. Children can enjoy hours of creative play as they make up a variety of beautiful flowers. Once created, children can display their floral creations using the Flower Market stand itself or the vases, tubes and paper cones that are included with the set.

Kids can promote their products with the booklet, decorate their stand with the stickers and then sell their creations, taking pretend-play payments from customers with the toy card machine. Should they fancy a refresh, they can take the petals apart to create brand-new flowers.

Reflecting the latest step in Make It Real’s continued growth in the craft space, and on trend with the miniature craze, is Make It Real’s highly innovative autumn 2023 release Mini Pottery Studio. The Mini Pottery Studio allows tweens to create their own mini pottery masterpieces without expensive classes and hassle: the product is mess and noise-free and uses air-dry clay. The patented centring tool is a great example of Make It Real’s innovative attitude towards its products and makes experimentation and quick results more accessible. Tweens can progress from beginner to master levels as they bring their clay creations to life.

Another autumn 2023 season highlight is Make It Real’s Party Nails: Glitter Nail Studio. Tweens can create 500 glittery nails by choosing from five colours of glitter, applying the Sparkle Primer to a nail, then inserting their finger into the Sparkle Spinner. A glitter vortex forms around the nail, transforming it from plain to sparkly in seconds. The product offers a fresh new way for tweens to get creative and express their unique style.

Sambro

Leading global supplier of licensed and own brand toys, Sambro International offers an extensive range of arts & crafts toys to inspire kids to enjoy creative and imaginative play and support development.

Arts & crafts is one of Sambro’s primary sectors, working with some of the world’s biggest and most well-known licensors such as Disney, Paramount, Mattel and Hasbro, with properties including Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig, Barbie and Stitch.

Sambro is a trusted supplier delivering valuedriven and innovation-led ranges for customers across the UK and EMEA regions. New product ranges, which are fast becoming popular with retailers, parents and children include the Paw Patrol Chase’s Craft Cruiser which has been developed in liaison with Paramount. The innovative caddy is packed to the brim with arts & crafts goodies and inspires developmental play thanks to its hidden activity functions such as the trunk which doubles up as pencil storage and wheels disguising pencil sharpeners and erasers. The caddy is finished with a Chase character Bops n’ Tops stamper, making it truly unique.

When it comes to own IP products, Sambro’s award-winning Love & Hugs range excels in the creative arts & crafts pamper arena. Specially developed to inspire creative play, the collection, which has been influenced by the latest TikTok beauty trends, features a host of beauty crafting activities. The 20-strong range includes many best-sellers including the DIY Bath Bomb Maker, Bracelet Maker, Hair Beader, Body Art and the Super Soaper soap maker – perfect for kids and the young at heart to craft their own social media worthy creations.

Brand new for autumn/winter 2023, Sambro will launch an exclusive range of Monster High products with Mattel, perfectly timed for the release of the latest movie this Autumn. Popular products in the range include the Monster High Ghoul Station, the Scream Printer, plus Patches & Pins sets and the Decorate and Reveal Craft Coffin. This hugely popular pocket money craft line comes as a blind pack, with eight crafty surprises and a secret Monster High character lurking inside.

Sambro’s already extensive arts & crafts range will continue to grow with new stationery and crafting licences to be launched in autumn/winter.